| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 236 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. 2. The use of this feigned history^ hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
| 1853 - 604 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, 'which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. he man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...shows], now bright with gold, Then dusk with horrid shades. — Virgil (Kennedy). P. 65, n. 1, 1. 1. — The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
..." is nothing else but feigned history, which may he styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to give...reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 pages
...be styled [written] as well in prose as in Terse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to giro some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, tho world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion inferior to... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled ae well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion inferior to... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but Feigned History, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this Feigned History hath been to give...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...fortified and exalted ; and his brief but celebrated passage on Poetry may be aptly repeated : — "The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
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